ENTERTAINMENTS.

Hawera & Normanby Star, Volume LXV, Issue LXV, 24 December 1913, Page 4

ENTERTAINMENTS.

OPERA HQtJ&C y "THEPRETTYiWARD;'? | Many star films have! been exhibited at the Opera House, but it is doubtful if any of them excelled the one to !» ;V shown to-night for. the first time. It is entitled <Th© Pretty "Ward," Tby the^ Cmes Company, the producers of the famous^ "Quo Vadis:" The Pathe G»zette shows the world's recent happenings. The entire programme will be " found most acceptable for a Christen* •JSve performance. , : . ■ ■ "THE BATTLE OP WATERLOO" ; At the Opera House, on Bokini night, .the management will prodiic* the KBattle of Waterlooj'' a magnifr • cent ■film, which' cost, £50,0(90 to1 produce, and in which three thousand '•'■' cavalry and. infantry took part. AVate*Joo is a pictorial triumph, and, the X greatest of all military successes; It was at the Duchess of Richmond's ball' at Brussels, on the 15th of, June, 1815, that Wellington received confirmatory news of Napoleon's plans. It has been ; asserted that the Iron Duke, though : J perfectly aware of NapoleonV m«^r : ': ments, determined to attend the viysM~--$ to reassure the people about the 'safeipSslfe of Brussels. Be that as it may -;(an#;/f§ historians differ about the point) %k/^ there;is a general agreement that lie -&& instructed his general officers to leave : - the ballroom quietly, and that it was r not until, two o'clock on the morning of the 16th that the reserve was called to arms and marched off at 4 o'clock in the morning. Wrote Lady Hamilton Dalrymple in heir diary: "I rteniT to ' = my window and saw the Highland Bri- '- gade marching out to the tune of 'Hieland Laddie,' and at eight o'clock -: the Duke and his staff passed. Ligny and Quatre Bras were fought that day, and it was two days afterwards (on the 18th of June) that the fate of the Little Corporal' was sealed; by the crushing victory of the allies on the >! field of-Waterloo." The programme - ; will include two fine comedies in "Love's Quarantine/ and "Tweed!** > dum becomes a wicked man." A fine drama is "The Spirit of Envy," by the Thanhouser Company. The Pathe. Gazette and "Labor Day Sports at Day's > i Bay" will finish one of the strongest - ; programmes ever presented in Hawera ; Seats may Be booked at the theatre. : f . ; WILSON'S PICTURES ;H _ The public of Opunake, Manaia, and ''"■"■?' latea are offered a special attraction-; -; during the holidays with the screening ::^ of "Sweet Nell of Old Drury," -at WiP son's Pictures.- Miss Nellie: Stewart; perhaps the most popular actress: who v ; ever visited the Dominion, will appear ' • m her famous character of ♦'Nell bwynne." The special mugic that 1» necessary for this production will be ' :■■ provided by the Patea Picture Orchesv' ■£*• tra, : and for lovers of,, gobd music thift :r----wili be an entertainment iii litself *' ': "Sweet NellY , will be; sHown at Opu^ 'V rtake on Christmas niglit, 8.3(X p.m.';1 ; v Manaia, Boxing Night, 8 D;m . ; a^j at v i fatea on Saturday night, December 27 " !